Beltsville Agricultural Research Center

Genome-wide identification of rhabdoviral sequences in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.)

Abstract We recently reported the identification of endogenous viral elements (EVEs) originating from the Caulimoviridae family within the alfalfa ( Medicago sativa L.) genome. Our subsequent identification of ubiquitous rhabdoviral elements in infected and healthy alfalfa tissue...

BSArray: An automated bulked segregant analysis pipeline for QTL discovery using Illumina Infinium SNP genotyping array

Efficient identification of quantitative trait loci (QTL) is essential for accelerating crop genetic improvement through marker-assisted selection (MAS). Bulked segregant analysis (BSA) using Illumina Infinium SNP genotyping arrays provides a cost-effective approach for detecting...

A High-Resolution Stereo-Seq Spatial Transcriptomic Resource for Adult Holstein Cattle Liver

The bovine liver is a highly compartmentalized organ that plays essential roles in continuous gluconeogenesis and nitrogen recycling; however, its spatial molecular architecture has remained largely uncharacterized due to the limitations of traditional bulk and single-cell approa...

Compressible but not redundant: knockout recovery and assay-panel architecture of the Neurospora crassa deletion phenome

Classical phenotype assays remain central to functional genetics, but a deletion phenome reflects both assay design and the set of knockouts that can be recovered for phenotyping. We integrated current Neurospora crassa knockout-availability records with a published complete-data...

Multilocus-Derived Genetic Variability and Pathogenicity of Colletotrichum Species from the Mid-Atlantic United States Associated with Anthracnose in Pepper

Colletotrichum species are important fungal pathogens that cause fruit rots leading to pre and postharvest losses of a broad range of Solanaceae crops, including bell and non-bell pepper and fresh-market and processing tomato. We performed a phylogenetic and pathogenic characteri...